Cd lecture series (standalone) for beginning & intermediate algebra (3rd ed )a user's guide to engineering (2nd ed )

0 Introduction

Welcome to Engineering

How to Use This Book

Engineering Case Studies

Acknowledgments

Part I: Exploring Engineering

Chapter 1: Introduction to Exploring Engineering

1.1 Introduction

1.2 Welcome to Engineering

1.3 How to Discover Engineering

1.4 The Grand Challenges

1.5 Engineering Education: What You Should Expect

1.4.1 Eaton's first rule: ' ... make practical applications of all the sciences ...'

1.4.2 Eaton's second rule: '... take the place of the teacher ... [in] exercises.'

1.4.3 Eaton's third rule: '... attend to but one branch of learning at the same time...'

1.4.4 Eaton's fourth rule: 'Let the amusements and recreation of students be of a scientific character.'

1.4.5 Eaton's fifth rule: 'Let every student daily criticize those whose exercise he has attended ...'

1.6 Summary

Summary of Key Ideas

Problems

Chapter 2: What is Engineering?

2.1 Introduction

2.2 Defining Engineering

2.3 Engineering as an Applied Discipline

2.3.1 Knowledge generation versus knowledge implementation

2.3.2 The role of engineering

2.4 Engineering As Creative Problem Solving

2.4.1 Solving problems

2.4.2 Standard approaches to solving problems

2.4.3 Creative approaches to solving problems

2.5 Engineering as Constrained Optimization

2.5.1 Constraints

2.5.2 Feasibility

2.6 Engineering as Helping Others

2.7 Engineers as Communicators

2.8 Engineering as a Profession

2.9 What Engineering is NOT

2.10 Summary

Summary of Key Ideas

Problems

Chapter 3: Engineering Careers

3.1 Introduction

3.2 Engineering Jobs

3.2.1 Availability of jobs

3.2.2 Introduction to engineer¿ing jobs

3.2.3 Engineers in industry

3.2.4 Engineers in service

3.2.5 Engineers in government

3.2.6 Other engineering jobs

3.2.7 Engineering education as a route to other fields

3.3 Job Satisfaction in Engineering

3.3.1 What does 'job satisfaction' mean to you?

3.3.2 Engineering salaries

3.4 Future of Engineering Employment

3.5 Summary

Summary of Key Ideas

Problems

Chapter 4: Engineering Disciplines

4.1 Introduction

4.2 How Many Engineering Disciplines Exist?

4.3 Chemical Engineering

4.3.1 Technical areas

4.3.2 Applications

4.3.3 Curriculum

4.4 Civil Engineering

4.3.1 Technical...